Road Tapes, Venue 2

Road Tapes, Venue #2
Live album by Frank Zappa
Released	October 31, 2013
Recorded	August 23–24, 1973 Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland
Length	144:09
Label	Vaulternative Records Catalog Number: VR 2013-1[1]
Frank Zappa chronology
AAAFNRAA Baby Snakes The Compleat Soundtrack (2012) Road Tapes, Venue #2 (2013) A Token of His Extreme Soundtrack (2013)

Road Tapes, Venue #2 is a posthumous album of Frank Zappa, which was published in November 2013. There are songs from three concerts, all of them held in August 1973. This collection, with a duration of more than two hours, gives the experience of a full concert.^[2][3][4][5] This is Official Release #96.

Track list

All tracks by Frank Zappa

All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa. 

Disc one
No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Introcious"	August 24, 1973	5:18
2.	"The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"	August 24, 1973	1:07
3.	"Kung Fu"	August 24, 1973	1:11
4.	"Penguin in Bondage"	August 24, 1973	4:07
5.	"Exercise #4"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	1:58
6.	"Dog Breath"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	1:36
7.	"The Dog Breath Variations"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	1:30
8.	"Uncle Meat"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	2:27
9.	"RDNZL"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	6:17
10.	"Montana"	August 24, 1973	7:02
11.	"Your Teeth and Your Shoulders and Sometimes Your Foot Goes Like This . . . /Pojama Prelude"	August 24, 1973	10:14
12.	"Dupree's Paradise"	August 24, 1973	15:55
13.	"All Skate/Dun-Dun-Dun (The Finnish Hit Single)"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	14:10

Disc two
No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Village of the Sun"	August 24, 1973	5:40
2.	"Echidna's Arf (Of You)"	August 24, 1973	4:22
3.	"Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?"	August 24, 1973	11:24
4.	"Big Swifty"	August 23, 1973 (late show)	14:14
5.	"Farther O'Blivion"	August 23, 1973 (late show) & August 24, 1973	24:18
6.	"Brown Shoes Don't Make It"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	7:33

Contributing artists

• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
• Jean-Luc Ponty – electronic violin
• George Duke – keyboards, vocals
• Ian Underwood – synthesizer, woodwind instruments
• Ruth Underwood – percussion
• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Tom Fowler – bass guitar
• Ralph Humphrey – drums

References

1. "Zappa.com > FZ Official Discography > Road Tapes, Venue #2 (2013)". zappa.com. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
2. "ROAD TAPES - VENUE #2". progarchives.com. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
3. "Frank Zappa– Road Tapes, Venue #2". discogs.com. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
4. "Road Tapes Venue # 2". jazzmusicarchives.com. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
5. "Frank Zappa – Road Tapes Venue # 2 (2013)". israbox.com. Retrieved 11 January 2014.